Category: Books

New Book Day (feat. The Digital Press): The Children of Neverville

It is my pleasure to announce the publication of the English translation of Miloš K. Ilić’s debut novel, The Children of Neverville translated by John K. Cox. The book is published as a collaboration between The Digital Press at the University of North Dakota and North Dakota Quarterly.  The Children

Book by its Cover: The Children of Neverville

Sneak peek at the cover for the next book from The Digital Press at the University of North Dakota and North Dakota Quarterly.  Cover design by Kathleen Turley Cox. More to come:

New Book Day: Songs of the Bunch Grass Acres

Keen-eyed readers of NDQ will remember that in issue 91.3/4 we reprinted a pair of poems from the North Dakota poet Clell Gannon. These poems were meant as a kind of amuse-bouche for the re-publication of Gannon’s Songs of the Bunch Grass Acres.  Today, we are very happy today to

New Book Day: The Muslims of Darürrahat

I’m tremendously excited to announce the publication of Ismail Gaspirali’s The Muslims of Darürrahat, translated by Çiğdem Pala Mull and edited by Sharon Carson. This book is published in collaboration with The Digital Press at the University of North Dakota as part of NDQ’s unofficial supplement series. The book is

Tacitus, Agricola

Bill Caraher | The events of the past week have likely tested our national reserve of empathy and will probably continue to do so.  In these situations, I find myself turning to literature — often ancient literature — to find my place in the world. This week, I turned to

New Book Day: Kabbalah as Literature

Congratulations to our fiction editor, Gilad Elbom for his new book: Kabbalah as Literature: The Revolution of Interpretation. You can get a copy here. The editors have not yet read it because it is so hot off the presses, but I want to share the blurb offered by its publisher,

Public Domain Day 2024

Over the past twenty years, New Years Day has become more than simply a celebration of a new beginnings, it is has come to coincide with Public Domain Day! And this year’s Public Domain Day is a particularly notable one because it finally features the arrival of Mickey Mouse (at

Campus Building

As longtime readers and supporters of NDQ know, we had our offices in Merrifield Hall on the campus of the University of North Dakota for nearly the entire history of the building. When the Quarterly finally decamped from Merrifield Hall, it was a sad day. In light of our long

Robert McAlmon and Robert Fleming

Bill Caraher | Like most readers, I’ve been mildly obsessed with Robert McAlmon since I first encountering his name during the breathless revelry associated with the centennial of Joyce’s Ulysses. Evidently McAlmon typed parts of “Penelope” and exerted some kind of editorial influence over its final form. I encountered McAlmon

Hanging Out

One of the greatest pleasures of being the editor of NDQ is getting to hang out — whether virtually or far less frequently, in person — with the spectacular folks on my editorial board and to celebrate their work. This year has been a very good one for NDQ’s editors!

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